Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Tom Hann says too many older people in St. John’s, N.L., are struggling to get by. That’s why the city councillor, who also happens to be a senior citizen, thought it was a good ...

VANCOUVER - Parks Canada often promotes the Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff as “one of the most scenic drives in the world,” but a plan to build a bike path along the route has ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - A request by the state of Massachusetts for a supply of clean, renewable electricity could give a boost to proposals to carry Canadian renewable energy to southern New England via pr...

VIMY RIDGE, France - They came together from coast to coast to coast, by the thousands, to say thank you and to remember. Canadians of all ages and all walks of life, they gathered under the soaring p...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for t...

LIONS BAY, B.C. - A search for five people missing along B.C.’s North Shore Mountains will resume at first light. Squamish RCMP Staff Sgt. Jolaine Percival says six hikers got into trouble Satur...

MERRITT, B.C. - A deal reached between British Columbia and Kinder Morgan reveals new details about the company’s timeline to approve investments for a proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain p...

WINNIPEG - When indigenous activist and author Wab Kinew officially launches his bid for the leadership of Manitoba’s New Democrats this week, he will try to take the helm of a party struggling ...

Canadian aid workers in the Middle East are preparing for an influx of asylum-seekers into already crowded camps, fearing U.S. military action in Syria could drive more people out of the wartorn count...

WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg say they’ve made an arrest and a man faces a murder charge in the case of a woman who disappeared last year. Christine Wood, from Oxford House First Nation, was las...